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Leave No Warrior Behind: Battlefield Recovery from Ancient Greece to Black Hawk Down and Beyond

Nov 1, 2023 at -



Penn Public Lecture: Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) Non-Return and Non-Arrival: Interdependence through Exclusion, Captivity and Incomplete Restitution (with a brief response from Kim Bowes, Classical Studies))

Nov 9, 2023 at -

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Penn Public Lecture: Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) The Exile as Weapon: Moving People to Challenge Autonomy and Exert Authority – Hellenistic Decrees & Televised Push-back (with a brief response from Cam Grey, Classical Studies)

Nov 7, 2023 at -

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Penn Public Lecture: Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) Who is the Host?: Asylum requests, Sovereignty and Recognition in the Polis of Greek Tragedy and Among Nations Today (with a brief response from Anne Norton, Political Science)

Nov 2, 2023 at -

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Department Colloquium: Katherine Blouin (University of Toronto) "Doing Classics on Indigenous Land"

Nov 16, 2023 at -

Speaker: Katherine Blouin, Associate Professor of History and Classics, University of Toronto

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Department Colloquium: Deven Patel (Penn) "New Directions in the Study of Indian Classical Humanities"

Oct 26, 2023 at -

Speaker: Deven Patel, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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Department Colloquium: Arsen Nisanyan (Harvard) “Kindling the song of Humanism: How one translation of Homer's Iliad changed intellectual life in Turkey”

Oct 19, 2023 at -

Speaker: Arsen Nisanyan, PhD candidate at Harvard University

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Department Colloquium: Matthew Leigh (St Anne's College, Oxford) “Declamatory Fictions and the Crimen Maiestatis - Seneca, Controversiae 9.2”

Sep 28, 2023 at -

Speaker: Matthew Leigh, Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, St Anne's College, Oxford

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Department Colloquium: Hérica Valladares (UNC Chapel Hill) "Women Writers from Pompeii: Epistolary Fictions in Roman Wall Painting"

Oct 5, 2023 at -

Speaker: HéricaValladares, Assoicate Professor, Department of Classics, UNC Chapel Hill

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The Odyssey, a play based on Emily Wilson’s translation, at Penn Live Arts

Sep 30, 2023 - Oct 1, 2023 at -

The Odyssey, a play based on Emily Wilson’s translation, at Penn Live Arts.  Talkback by Penn Public Lecturer Elena Isayev on 9/30. 

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